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Charming Natural Attractions Embel-
lished by Unstinted Expenditure-Beau-
tiful Death Traps that Gather Thousa nds
of victims-Scenes in Monte Carlo.


MONTE CARLO, June 1, 18S7.-1t is
rather startling to an American to openly
walk into large-sized gambling house.
l say openly because it is the custom of
the masculine portion of the world to slide
in by half-open door or through the
back way into place where one can risk
his money for the sake of gain. But the
feeling of an American as he deliberately
walks into gambling-den accompanied
by ladies, perhaps his mother, wife or
daughter, is better imagined than de-
scribed At this place, however, it is
nothing out of the way to walk into the
public gambling house at any hour after
noon and before eleven o'clock at night.
Strange again, but those who seem to
take the most delight in walking in are
the ladies. Bless their dear hearts it
does one good to see them plank down
their money like veterans and lose it
without tear or squeal, or win more
without an outburst of pleasure or excite
ment. There is no use to tell you why
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overlook the game or watch and see that
all goes right. From noon until eleven
o'clock at night the ball rolls necessarily.
1t never stops because there is always
some one to play. The officers fire.
quently change from table to table.
When luck is against the house there is a
general change all around.
1t is a picture to watch the women
play. These are the shrewdest of the
many frequenters of the rooms and use
with the greatest deXterity the long
handled rakes to pull their money in
when they win. l noticed old women
who could hardly walk sitting for hours
at the tables playing with the terrible in
tensity of want and poverty staring
them in the face should the roll turn out
against them. The women are peculiar
players. They stick to the numbers, and
let the red and black, odd or even, alone.
They will play four or three numbers, a
line or one number, and have their favor
ties. They will risk 500 or 1 200 francs as
readily as five francs, and never smile or
vince whichever way it goes. Young
women inculcate such fascination for
the game that they become the most reck-
less of gamblers, and the bank often
trembles to see them come in.
The hotels here are run on plan that
is seldom encountered on the continent
that is, they demand cash down for any
thing furnished, except room rent this
they collect every week. They allow
nothing to be charged on your bill
Evidently they know how tickle the
goddess of chance is, and they are deter
mined not to lose anything by the suicide
of guest or the sudden departure of a
"busted" inmate. JOHN S. SHRIvER.
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ton given Monaco by nature renders
it an excellent fortress in case it is
stormed.
The people of Monte Carlo are evil
IDENTIFY awake to the necessities of visit
ors to this charming spot, for the first
thing that met my eye in the shop win
dows was most elegant display of pis-
tolls. There were pistols of all kinds,
sizes and prices-pistols cheap and PTS
tolls dear, pistols for a quick death and
pistols for slow and-didn't-quite-
mean-it discharge The storekeepers
know by experience what the unfortu-
nate and rash visitors want and are pre-
pared. 1t is said that roulette will break
anyone if he plays it long enough. Rou-
lette and rouge ct noir are the only games
played at the Casino here.
What charming place the Casino is,
though to be sure a veritable whited Sc
pulchre
Gorgeous without, dark and awful
within You sit outside under the can
opy after dinner, sip your coffee by the
fading twilight and think of the numbers
you will play later.
The admission is by visiting card,
which presented at the door secures you
ticket for the day. If you are fire.
quent visitor, the doorkeepers-like at
every other similar establishment-get
to know you and you pass right in well
come visitor.
The gambling saloon only occupies
one wing in the building, for there are a
theatre, reading room and other sal, ons,
all free. The gambling room is mag
nificent apartment, adorned with rare
paintings and frescoes. 1t is decorated
in Moorish style.
Here it is in full operation. In the first
or main room are six roulette tables-in
the second, two for rouge ct noir Five
francs or 81 is the lowest allowed to be
played at roulette, and twentyfranc
pieces or 81 the lowest at rouge ct noir.
Eight and ofttimes ten of the officers
watch each table for the "house." One
spins the board and rolls the ball. The man
opposite him calls the lucky number.
Two men sit on either side of each of
these (making six in centre of table,, the
latter four to pay out, hand in or change
money, as no chips are used, only cash
being played. AT each end of the table
sits one other man to watch the players.
Then again two officers sit on high
chairs behind the roller and the caller to
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ABOUT WOMEN.

The first Danish lady physician, Miss
NIELSEN. has just begun to practice in Copen-
.lagen She took her degree with the highest
lonors.
At the last examination of students of
Medicine at the Nicholas Hospital, in st. Peters
,urg, fiftyfour ladies out of ninety-two OBJ
tanned their degrees.
Miss Mary l.. Booth, the well-known
EDITOR of Ha,per's Basar, is enjoying a six
months vacation in Europe. She will spend
two months in Italy and Switzerland return
ing then for longer stay in Paris.
An Indian girl from the Hampton
school is soon to enter the training school for
nurses in New Haven. She is engaged to the
son of a Sioux chief who is studying in the
medical college at Philadelphia and when they
both graduate they will be married and return
to the Indians and give them the benefit of
skillful treatment.
Some sensation has been caused in
Viennese society by the conversion OF Mdle
Melanie Blaskovics, member of one of the
Oldest families in Hungary, to Judaism. This
young lady publicly abjured in the principal
Viennese synagogue. She will shortly be mar
ried to Baron Hermann Konigswarter, son of
Baron Moritz Konigswarter the well-known
Jewish banker.
The Nineteenth Century Club of New
York talks of having a clubhouse to which
both men and women shall be eligible as mem
bers. The proposed new clubhouse will be
provided with hall capable of accommodate
ing 200 persons. There will be two classes of
members-those who wish to belong to the
club proper, and those who will come only
when literary exercises are given.
In the report of the Royal University
of Ireland for 1886 the degree of bachelor of
art was conferred on nine women, of whom
four took honors. One lady was admitted to
the degree of master of arts, and another. Miss
Mary Story, obtained the first place in the first
class honors in modern literature, and won
first-class exhibition Out of seventy eight
women who presented themselves for matric-
ulation, seventy-one passed. twenty seven of
them with honors.
The recent commencement of Column
bia College, N. Twas made memorable by the
bestowal of the baccalaureate degree, for the
first time in the history of the college, upon
woman-Miss Mary Parsons Hankey. In addi-
ton to the bestowal of the baccalaureate de-
gree upon Miss Hankey, four young women
were given certificates of proficiency in elect
i've courses: Miss Sara b. Rogers, of Bridge
port; Miss Emily Palmer. daughter of Court
landt Palmer; Miss Alice ID. Smith and Mis-,
Katherine d. Hogan.
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more than less pronounced finish. The
order when desired, but one familiar
with them can trace suggestions of these
styles in every piece of modern furniture
as veil as ideas from the Italian, French,
German and Dutch renaissance. To
meet the demand of a variety of tastes,
when an especially beautiful piece of
carving is turned out for a head or foot
board of a bedstead or the front of a
bureau, it is reproduced in another suite
in marquetry or inlaid work, various
woods of handsome grain being intro
duced and the surface polished like a
mirror. This is antique and artistic.
marquetry is also used on expensive
hall chairs, which, by the way, always
look too good to sit upon.
Between this very fine furniture and
the cheap pine sets there is a happy
medium less expensive but just as service
able and made from designs just as artis-
tic, sold at price within the reach of
the many whose pocketbooks are not
plethoric. The demand for this class be-
ing steady, it is always kept in stock,
while the higher grades, aside from the
samples, are manufactured to order. The
forthcoming fall styles will show a
studied carelessness in ornamentation
more difficult to produce than symmetri-
cal figures, for one false step takes this
method from the realm of good taste to
the realm of the ridiculous. A very
graceful ornamentation will be carved
representation of ribbon loosely knotted
and extending diagonally down the head
board in very jaunty fashion. Brass
knobs for bureau and washstand drawers
and escutcheons for locks of the same
material of odd patterns are still in
vogue. To the artist workman whose
brain plans and hands create these COM
forts and adornments our thanks are due
for lifting this branch of industry up to
the high plane of art
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MRS. sLApE WANTS A DIVORCE.
She Gives Singular Reasons for Wishing
Separation from Her Husband.

separation from Her Husband.
A Mrs. Slade, living near Hazlehurst, in
Appling county, has entered suit against
her husband for a divorce. She and her
husband are both very old, and have been
married but a short time. She sets out in
her bill that she and Slade were married at
a certain time, and that she wants total
divorce upon the following grounds: The
first ground is that at the time of their mar
riage by reason of her eyesight, she was I'M
able to tell just what kind of a looking man
Slade was, and that since their marriage she
learns that he has wart on his nose, and
was even red-headed. The second is that he
snored in his sleep and that it is impossible
for her to sleep with him. The third count
is that he fails to give her the attention that
a good wife should have, and that he has
never kissed her since the day they were
married.
The fourth and last ground is that she
wants to marry again, and believes it will
promote the ends of good society to declare
the marriage void, and allow her to marry
some one without wart on his nose, and
who does not snore in his sleep.-Savannah
NeWs.
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HER CHINA CUP.
FRANK DEMPsTER SHERMAN.

Her china cup is white and thin;
A thousand times her heart has beer
Made merry at its scalloped brink;
And in the bottom painted pink,
A dragon greets her with a grin.
The brim her kisses love to win;
The handle is manikin,
Who spies the foes that chip or chink
Her china cup.
Muse, tell me if it be sin;
l watch her lift it past her chin
Upto the scarlet lips and drink
The Oolong draught. Somehow l think
I'd like to be the dragon in
Her china cup.
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A IOng-liyed Family,

The McCully family, of Allegheny county
Pa, is long lived. John has just died aget
ninety-four years. The eldest survivor OF
the family is his sister, Mrs. Jennie Hutz
who is now in her ninety year
tinues to laugh and joke as though eighty
seven and a-halt years were a light burden
for man to carry. Polly McCully, who re
sides with Jesse, is in her eighty-sixth year
Another sister, Mrs. Margaret Cochrane, has
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JUNE.
AMELIE RIVES.

The cuckoo-cups are full of rain,
And little elves do battle therein,
The straddling spires of beard-grass high
Swing back and forth till they be dry,
For moonworts bloom, and June is here,
The sweetest month of all the year.
The fallow-finches haunt the corn
With songs of summer dead and gone,
And every lass that's fair to view
Doth walk with fernseed in her shoe,
For natures darling, June is here,
The wooing month ofall the year.
-Hayper's Magazine.
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1t Depended on the Season.

School Teacher-Johnny, what is the
econd letter of the alphabet?
Johnny-Don't know.
School Teacher-What flies about the gar
len?
Johnny-When.
School Teacher-In the summer.
Johnny-Oh, | know-mother after the
Bits
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jutting out into the sea and at its foot is
Monte Carlo with it's hotels and Casino.
What delightful walk it is from the
Casino to Monaco! 1t only takes about
half an hour, and you pass through such
beautiful gardens, down such gorgeous
terraces, overlooking the sea, and thence
through the town, with its funny-look-
ing people and queer houses, that one
does not weary at the ups and downs of
the road.
Starting with the Casino gardens you
pass down the long marble terrace, with
balustrades and flowers on either side.
Here the orange and lemon trees are
in profusion, while the cactus and aloe
grow like wild flowers by the roadside.
Down this terrace you go ever and anon
looking over the side to catch a glimpse
of the blue sea until you reach the quaint
old town. Up by the Casino the new and
grand hotels stand, for there the tourist
loves to stay because he then is near the
Casino. Monte Carlo is great watering
place. People come here when the sea-
son at Nice and Cannes is over, because,
besides the attractions at the gambling
tables, one has the charming atmosphere,
the balmy air, the beautiful gardens and
the cool sea breeze. But to continue our
walk to Monaco.
Once into the town you are surprised
at the absence of shops. You traverse
nearly all of the streets before coming to
a shop, and when you do find one
or two these are small. The people
of Monte Carlo and Monaco, like the
principality, have small wants; thence
the store-keepers are wise in opening
their shops up on the hilltop near the
hotels. One reaches Monaco by steep
roadway up the side of the rock. There
is somewhat shorter pathway, but quite
winding, for foot passengers, which leaves
the roadway half way up, and up this
you climb.
Once up and through the gates, guided
by the soldiers of the prince, you find
yourself on the top of large, flat rock. In
the centre is small group of houses
where the residents of Monaco dwell
only afew hundred souls in all. AT the end
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Too Many Smiles Make Him Villainish.
When it comes to taking a social glass
man may smile and smile again and still moi
be villain.-NeW Orleans Picayune.
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But One Has No Stops.
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LOweH Citizen
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gambling is allowed at Monte
Carlo, for you know the place be-
longs to the miniature principal
ity of Monaco, and the Prince
Grimaldi runs the game The
old man is blind now and over
sixty, and rarely stays here at his
palace. So he does not have a
chance to play often.
Just at this time he is off in
his yacht cruising in the Mediter-
ranean, enjoying himself, while
his subjects in this little place live
on contented, and the game still
goes on. Monaco is beautifully
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WOMANs WORLD

In all its varied features dwelt upon by JENNY
JUNE, MARION HARLAND, OLIVE LOGAN,
CLARA BELLE, MRS. MALLoN, NORMA BLAKE
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pending with several of the best-known
writer's of those sections.
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DAN BEARD.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-12-29

two lengths after the stake was
turned, but their boat being half
full of water, they were soon caught
up to by the Vandalia.
On rounding the lighthouse, COM
ing home, the Vandalia boat was
ahead. When the foot of Fort street
was reached the boats were as even
as could be. Then the excitement
was great. At this place (foot of
Fort street) the Vandalias had
taken the natives water, and were
crowding the latter towards the
wharves, but did not touch them nor
were they touched by the natives.
In crossing the line the Vandalia
was ahead by two seconds.
Captain King, judge and starter,
acting on the advice of his repre-
sentative, Mr.. Wundenburg, de-
clared the race in favor of the native
crew, ON account of the foul at the
turning point. Lieutenant Wood
decided the race in favor of the
Vandalia, claiming that the foul al
the buoy did not retard the native
boat and did not alter its chances in
the race, for it had lead of two
lengths after the turn. The judges
not agreeing in their opinions, the
matter rested entirely with the re-
fierce, who declared the Vandalia
boat the winner. The majority rules
| and the decision is final.
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Cututa Railroad, assumed the con-
troll of the line. This action was
taken, as the decree states, for "the
purpose of preventing the company
assisting designs against the public
peace by transporting munitions for
Insurrectionists and otherwise aiding
them"
A district of Venezuela is reported
to be at present infested by packs of
mad wolves.
News from Chile regarding the
cholera is conflicting. No cases {
reported at Valparaiso, but it is re-
ported prevalent in the neighborhood
of Conception.
One million dollars per annum has
been offered the Government OF
Peru by strong Chinese mercantile
house in San Francisco in return for
the exclusive right to import opium
into Peru.-S. F. Call.
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THE P. C. ADVERTISER FOR SALE.

An announcement in the "Adver-
tiser" to-day, to the effect that the
plant, goodwill, copyright, etc., of
that paper will be sold at public
auction on Saturday, January 9TH,
if not previously disposed of by pri-
vate sale, merits something more
than passing mention. The up. G.
Advertiser" is the oldest newspaper
on these Islands. 1t was founded
in July, 1856, by the Hon. H. M.
Whitney, who conducted it with
vigor and success up to 1871, when
he sold the property to Messrs.
Black and Aud, who in turn parted
with their interest in it to Mr..
Walter M. Gibson in August, 1880.
After Mr.. Gibson took office as
Premier he sold the advertiser"
to Messrs. Webb and Macfarlane,
who retained control until the organ
ization of the Pacific Commercial
Advertiser Company in 1885. This
company bought and conducted the
paper with more or less vigor up to
date.
The plant is complete in every
department, the business is an old
and established one, and there can
be no doubt that in strong hands
the 'tP. &. Advertiser" would re-
cover the ground it lost when Mr..
Gibson bought the controlling inter-
est in the company last May, and
changed the policy of the paper.
Such property cannot go-a-beggmg.
1t is too closely identified with the
past history and vested interests of
the country to admit of its being
closed up. The possibility of its
future usefulness, as of all news
papers, is matter which concerns
the whole community.
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II I'll L
ANOTHER DISCOVERY.

The "GaZette" has just made
another important discovery. Startl-
ing '.fnds" are in the line of our
contemporaries adventure. A short
time ago, when an officer of II. B.
M. S. Conquest sent private note
to the Editor of the BULLETIN, sug-
gesting a yacht race on the 28th of
November, and the BULLETIN, in its
editorial column, placed the sug-
gestion before it's readers, the ga
zette" Immediately discovered that
it was scheme designed to lessen
attendance at the Volunteer drill,
announced for the afternoon of the
same day. More recently, one of
the contributors to the same paper
discovered that two framed paint
ings, one representing the battle of
Waterloo and the other the death of
Nelson at Trafalgar, hung on the
wall of native newspaper office,
with request in writing alongside,
that spectators would not make
noise, to interrupt the work of the
Office, all had a covert meaning, the
intention of which was to excite the
natives to rebellion. And now the
uGazette'' comes out with another
startling discovery, heralded in the
following words: - "Among the
causes contributing to the tempest
in the teapot raised against the
Ministry, through the medium of
the BULLETIN just before the King
kicked over the traces, were the
fears of prosecution entertained by
the whisky smugglers whose rascally
deeds were exposed in the Legisla-
ture. This is a fact capable of
demonstration to dot, and it serves
to show the public part of the mo-
tives instigating the hue and cry OF
the malcontents." No doubt, the
HGazette" knows all about 1t, but
other people are not so we'll in
formed. In fact, some people are
so incredulous that they want some
thing more than the discoyerer's